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Israeli regulator threatens Noble Energy over competition, Globes reportsIsrael's antitrust regulator is pushing Noble Energy and its partner Delek Energy to facilitate significant competition in Israel's natural gas market, the regulator, Antitrust Authority director general David Gilo, told Globes. If the companies don't meet this condition, Gilo said he would seek to take away their Leviathan gas field using the country's courts, the website added. Reference Link

Noble Energy upgraded to Outperform at Credit SuisseAs previously reported, Credit Suisse upgraded Noble Energy to Outperform from Neutral and increased its price target to $55 from $52. The firm sees several near-term catalysts in DJ Basin with infrastructure additions improving field gathering pressures and completion, and well spacing optimization. Additionally, Credit Suisse said comments buy the Israeli government indicate the Leviathan development opportunity will be sold into premium LNG markets.

Noble Energy closes acquisition of Rosetta ResourcesNoble Energy (NBL) announced that the stockholders of Rosetta Resources (ROSE) overwhelmingly approved the merger of Rosetta into a subsidiary of Noble Energy. The transaction closed following the shareholder meeting and the merger will be effective at the end of the day. In conjunction with the closing, Rosetta will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Energy and Rosetta CEO James Craddock will join the Noble Energy board. Highlights of the acquisition for Noble Energy include: Approximately 50,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford Shale and 56,000 net acres in the Permian; Year-end 2014 proved reserves of 282M barrels of oil equivalent; Current production of approximately 63 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day; More than 1,800 gross horizontal drilling locations identified for development, with net unrisked resource potential of approximately 1B barrels of oil equivalent; Noble Energy anticipates more than 15% annual production growth to an average of more than 100 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2018; Substantial operational synergies expected across the combined onshore U.S. portfolio.